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Data Pick of the Week

Pick of the week: Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum – NYTimes.com

    • “Correlations are what motivate us to look further. If all that big data does — and it surely does more — is to point out interesting correlations whose fundamental reasons we unpack in other ways, that already has immense value” (Sendhil Mullainathan)

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Privacy

Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block – ProPublica

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Giustizia civile, idee per la riforma – FIRSTonline

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Internet Pick of the Week

Pick of the week: Europe’s Digital Reactionaries. – Project Syndicate

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Engadget: Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited offers all-you-can-eat e-books for $10 a month

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Antitrust Case Law

Update: A.G. Schneiderman Settles With Apple In E-book Price-fixing Case | Eric T. Schneiderman

  • “Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Apple Inc. arising out of Apple’s participation in a price-fixing conspiracy that a federal court in New York found raised the prices of E-books sold to consumers in New York and throughout the country. The settlement agreement, which must be approved by the court, has the potential to result in payments to consumers of $400 million, and would resolve claims for consumer damages and civil penalties brought by New York and 32 other states and territories. “

    Former posts on the subject: 1, 2, 3.

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Antitrust Case Law

Update: Apple settles e-book antitrust case with U.S. states, others | Reuters

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Business Models Libri

Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed – NYTimes.com

  • “Amazon believes that publishers take too much of the money in producing a book and add too little value. In traditional publishing, the highest royalty a writer could get was 15 percent of the book’s price. With e-books, the royalty is 25 percent of net revenue, but Amazon feels that is still not enough. Mr. Zandri gets 35 percent, and self-published writers who use Amazon’s platform get more.”


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Business Models Libri

Amazon vs. Hachette, perché si scontrano i colossi dell’editoria – Pagina99.it

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‘A Threat to Internet Freedom’ – NYTimes.com

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